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58%
58% -- share of http requests from automated systems for global web traffic (2026)
Automated systems account for approximately 58% of HTTP requests to web content worldwide.
- Described in source as roughly 58 percent
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Value
58%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Geography
EMEA
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Cloudflare
Primary
Tier A
https://seohandbook.co.uk/seo-news-updates/cloudflare-pact-private-access-control-tokens/ ↗
Source Article
Cloudflare and Browser Makers Announce PACT Bot-Verification Protocol | The SEO Handbook
Cloudflare and Browser Makers Announce PACT Bot-Verification Protocol
On 22 June 2026 Cloudflare announced it is working with the makers of the three major browsers, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox, alongside Shopify, to develop and standardise a protocol called PACT (Private Acces…
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Cloudflare
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Methodology
Cloudflare Radar traffic data cited alongside the PACT protocol announcement; companion figure of 42% from human visitors.
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IndustryMedia
RegionEMEA
RoleAll marketers
Channelmulti-channel
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global web traffic: 58% share of http requests from automated systems. Source: Cloudflare (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cloudflare-radar-automated-http-traffic-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/cloudflare-radar-automated-http-traffic-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>58%</strong> -- share of http requests from automated systems for global web traffic<br><small>Source: Cloudflare (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/cloudflare-radar-automated-http-traffic-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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